Creating welcoming spaces and designing inclusive experiences for all

Partner with student centers to understand and address needs of diverse campus populations.

Incorporate universal design principles into facilities, technologies and services for learners with different needs.

Promoting distinctive, diverse collections

Promoting many viewpoints in the way we collect, manage, and share our distinctive collections for campus and community enrichment.

Develop guidelines in partnership with Arizona tribes and campus stakeholders for managing researcher access to archival collections that contain Native American materials.

Increase discoverability of information about diverse people, organizations, and places important to the history of Tucson and southern Arizona by contributing standardized descriptions to the Library of Congress that can be used by cultural institutions across the world.

Accomplishments thus far

We are making good progress toward this strategic direction. As of Spring 2019, we have:

Been awarded an ODIEX grant and hired two student Peer Information Counselors to work with the cultural centers on campus.